Scarborough, the seaside resort in North Yorkshire is making quite a name for itself as a hot spot for mainstream musicians on the east coast. Furthermore, artists such as Britney Spears, Biffy Clyro and Years And Years have all stopped off to grace the stage at the 8000 capacity Open Air Theatre. Now, Lewis Capaldi […]
Orchards stopped at the Brudenell Social Club on their UK headline tour amidst a busy summer of festival appearances. Steadily, their reputation is growing as the country’s most exciting math-pop band. Backed with positive praise from Noisey and CLASH following the release of their debut EP ‘Losers/Lovers’ and the later double A-side ‘Young/Mature Me’, the
Biffy Clyro made their first live appearance of 2019 on Friday night under a dark and gloomy North Yorkshire sky at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre. A night which will remain in fans memories for a long time after a truly unforgettable performance. Fatherson Fellow Scots, Fatherson, kicked the evening off with a BANG. With
Hop Along are steadily building a reputation in America as one of the most impressive underground bands around. Despite this, they have yet to reach the same level of cult status here in the UK. However, their first headline European tour since the release of the tremendous ‘Bark Your Head Off, Dog’ may change this.
Since the release of Snail Mail’s critically acclaimed debut LP ‘Lush’, life has been pretty hectic for Lindsey Jordan. Following recent appearances at Primavera, Best Kept Secret Festival and All Points East, her project Snail Mail is now embarking on another European tour. She will then follow this with a stint on the road back
Taking the stage with a 6-strong set of accomplished rockers, the Cambridge Corn Exchange was host to The Manic Street Preachers, The Manics as they are affectionately known, on Tuesday night. Not deviant or raucous but clear in their message and delivery. They are levelling in somewhat somber tones that the band tends to exist
One of the best parts of my job is covering a live review, more specifically, an artist with an impressive history of music. The reason I sometimes enjoy those experiences all the more is for one reason – watching the fans react. When you see a long-standing fan emote for the artist they have carried
Kris Barras has taken a more unusual path than most as he establishes his name as a leading figure in the UK’s blue-rock scene. Until recently he split his time between life on the road as musician and being a professional MMA fighter, with an impressive record of 14 victories and only 2 defeats. Now
Quietly dominant, in so far as their enduring legacy, and actually maintaining a quite cult-hero status as a stand-out band, the members of Travis are currently on tour celebrating their album, ‘The Man Who’. The sophomore album was originally released in 1999, and ultimately led to the band growing into what they are today. During the
I didn’t know what to expect coming into the hotly anticipated and instant sell-out Beastie Boys show at Earth’s Hackney last night. I’m fairly confident in saying however that what I witnessed over those 2 and a half hours! was a truly unique, bonkers, brilliant yet beautiful send-off to the New York pioneers career and
With a stage set straight out of Tron, all slick white and angular and neon-lit, the night’s trajectory was plain. The Human League, comprised of original members Philip Oakey, Joanne Catherall, Susan Ann Sulley, along with three other additional musicians, still present the neo-synth style with as much grasp on it and its effectiveness as
Hinds headed to Hull’s The Welly in support of their critically acclaimed sophomore album ‘I Don’t Run’ and combined hearty garage-pop with a real fiesta atmosphere which could heat up the coldest of British wintery nights. The Spanish quartet, which consists of Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote on vocals and guitars, Ade Martin on bass
As a part of the ‘That’s What I Call 175’ events being held in commemoration of Birmingham City University’s 175th anniversary, The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire hosted a celebratory concert to showcase the finest music to have been created in and linked to the country’s second city. The event was hosted by Classic FM’s John Suchet
If Disco and Funk had a baby, it’d be called Parcels. The lights were out. The room dark. The audience silent. A beam of golden light pierces the gloom. The Parcels logo illuminates the sky. People cheer. People laugh. People cry. I think I even saw a guy in a wheelchair stand up. Okay, those
There are just those artists that intrinsically move you because they come from a place of such creative depth that they win you over without hesitation and wholly from the first. Lord Huron, for me, are those artists. As they humbly took to the stage on Thursday at the Junction in Cambridge, (on tour of
2018 is increasingly becoming the year of the album anniversary show with the likes of Bloc Party, Smashing Pumpkins and Los Campesinos performing iconic albums in full recently. Mew have joined this list by celebrating the 15th anniversary of their iconic album ‘Frengers’ with a double header of performances at the Barbican in London, along
Tom Odell is indeed an accomplished singer-songwriter but beyond that, he is not the retiring performer one would expect from a pianoman. Far from it. The elegance of the stage setting, framed in targeted lighting at the Cambridge Corn Exchange on Monday night, set your mind to think that potentially this was just an eloquent
The Blinders continue to storm through 2018 with an exciting brand of proto-punk influenced alternative rock and a growing reputation that places them alongside contemporaries IDLES, Fizzy Blood and Cabbage. Based on their recent achievements, an appearance at a tiny venue in Hull may appear to be an odd choice for The Blinders. However, The
In a light and dreamy aura, the band Fickle Friends, touring again on the new album they released earlier in the year, ‘You Are Someone Else’, took to the stage in Cambridge on Saturday night, to lend a little frothy, summery vibe, despite the soon approaching colder months. With pink neon signs and a palm
The unifying concept of a concert never ceases to amaze, especially with a seasoned, wholly talented and iconic performer such as Paul Young. There was absolutely no shortage of love (with plenty of oohing and slight scattered screaming from various women dotted through the crowd) when Young took the stage on Monday night at the
